DebianOn is an effort to document how to install, configure and use Debian on some specific hardware. Therefore potential buyers would know if that hardware is supported and owner would know how get the best out of that hardware.

The purpose is not to duplicate the Debian Official Documentation, but to document how to install Debian on some specific hardware.

Important Note

Tested both Wheezy (stable) and Jessie (testing) with some unstable packages (Iceweasel). Everything runs perfectly. Kernels 3.2 and 3.9 were tested. The only difference this gave was with the Broadcom BCM4313 WiFi chip.

Configuration

Display / ATI

The included ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Worked out of the box. Dual screen also worked - via VGA and HDMI. Still can't get Gnome Menu transparency working with latest (13.6 beta) ATI Driver on Jessie. Driver was downloaded from ATI's Website and was installed via the provided .run executable. After the installation finishes run:

aticonfig --initial

This will create the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for you with the appropriate configuration.

Power Management

WiFi

Requires non-free firmware! Requires braodcom-sta-dkms with kernel 3.2. Requires firmware-brcm80211 for kernel 3.9. For an example for kernel 3.2 look here. For the latter 3.9 kernel look here. If you are using such a twin-kernel solution then firstly install broadcom-sta-dkms under kernel 3.2 and then install the firmware-brcm80211 package under kernel 3.9.